Posted by SLS on December 14, 2015, at 21:56:40
In reply to Re: prozac with remeron?, posted by rjlockhart37 on December 14, 2015, at 20:39:25
> yea klonopin does have less abuse potential, because it eases anxiety but it just.......made me depressed, like a depressed calm, xanax and ativan and the other benzo's seem to produce a pleasant calm, not like getting high but it's like that feeling "everything is ok, stay calm"
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> klonopin did help my anxiety, but i just .... i rerember taking 2 g twice daily mg during the day for panic atttacks in 2005-07 and it just depressed my my mood
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> it's a good med for panic attacks in general, and it also a very good for calming amphetamine/methamphetamine crashes, i used to abuse methamphetamine and when that horrible crash wore off feeling drained and could not sleep, agitated, irrtible, in a horrible mood from dopamine depletion..... klonopin would miraculously send me back to earth, and get me to natural sleep..... it acts like a anti-manic in some ways.......Yup. When antidepressant medication made me manic for the first time, lithium and Klonopin were the only drugs available to use as mood stabilizers. Lithium by itself didn't help much. Adding Klonopin saved me.
Klonopin is known for causing or making worse depression. It did that to me when I tried taking it during a time when I was not manic.
Way back when, at a time when Klonopin was still being studied closely, it was reported by at least one investigation that Klonopin was unique among benzodiazepines with respect to serotonin function via a reduction in release. It also causes an upregulation of serotonin receptors sites, presumably due to the release inhibition. Interestingly, lithium also inhibits serotonin release.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2418653
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